US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 31 for "Durable database log system with low-latency transactions stored across multiple storage nodes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,486, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Durable database log system with low-latency transactions stored across multiple storage nodes" was invented by James David Hunter (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Anita Zakrzewska (Redmond, Wash.), Ankesh Khandelwal (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Bryan Thompson (Seattle), Erik Lars Hagerup (Bothell, Wash.), Tengiz Kharatishvili (Issaquah, Wash.) and Zengwen Yuan (Maple Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system with multiple logs uses a summary log to speed recovery of the database in the event of a crash at the storage nodes. The database durability system...